Re:JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in
by zeroimpl on Monday October 13, 2025 @10:26PM
(#45575615)
I couldn’t find a library like this in PHP, but realized for my use case I could easily hack something together. Algorithm is simply:
- trim off all trailing delimiters: },"
- then add on a fixed suffix: "]}
- then try parsing as a standard json. Ignore results if fails to parse.
This works since the schema I’m parsing had a fairly simple structure where everything of interest was at a specific depth in the hierarchy and values were all strings.
- trim off all trailing delimiters: },"
- then add on a fixed suffix: "]}
- then try parsing as a standard json. Ignore results if fails to parse.
This works since the schema I’m parsing had a fairly simple structure where everything of interest was at a specific depth in the hierarchy and values were all strings.